Section 24 The Rush of the Expedition [3]

The two elites in the world are rapidly consuming in the bloody battle. In terms of the proportion of battle losses, the school knife hand is slightly lower than the trapping camp. However, Guan Yu's face became more and more difficult to look at. The reason for this change was that he knew that his troops were about to suffer a defeat.

The combat effectiveness of the school knife hand is no worse than that of the trapped camp. The Mo knife hand who can leave a famous name in history is the descendant of the school knife hand. But it's a pity that the number of school swordsmen is less than half of the trapped camp. In the short time of half a pillar of incense, at least a hundred people were killed on both sides. For the trapping camp, that's only one-sixth to one-fifth of the number. But for the much smaller number of school knife men, this is already close to half of the casualties.

can suffer nearly half of the casualties, but still fight to the death, there are not many such strong soldiers in the world. But if the casualties increase further, to sixty percent, or seventy percent, will the school knife bearers still be able to hold on?

Even if Guan Yu is quite confident in his training ability, he still doesn't think that the school swordsmen can do it.

In fact, the school knife hand has done a good job. In this battle, they held out until the casualties exceeded fifty percent before they began to waver, which can be described as a glorious defeat.

No one could criticize them and demand them to do better—in fact, in this day and age, a unit that could withstand twenty percent casualties could already be called an elite soldier.

Guan Yu decided to retire.

However, before Guan Yu really ordered a retreat, the school knife hand had already spontaneously begun to retreat. At this time, the battle loss rate of the school swordsmen was already as high as more than sixty percent - just when Guan Yu made up his mind to issue the retreat order, another ten percent of the school swordsmen were killed.

The retreat of the school knife hand triggered the shaking of Guan Yu's entire army. However, at this time, Guan Yu still did not think that this battle would definitely be lost. He turned back to the lieutenant general who was commanding and gave the order, raising the double rabbit flag in the army to ask for help. He jumped his horse and rushed towards the trapping camp, and with a wave of his sword, he slashed the head of the trapped camp soldiers who were hedged at the front.

So, in front of thousands of troops, Guan Yu showed what it means to be "ten thousand enemies".

What is "10,000 enemies"?

Even in the face of an army of 10,000 people, there is still enough strength and courage to fight into the enemy's ranks. Fight your way out!

At this time, Guan Yu didn't need to fight a bloody way, he just needed to temporarily kill a wave of pursuit from the fallen camp.

"Whoever stands in my way - death!"

Guan Yu, who came to the front line of the fight, lowered the broadsword and faced the height of the infantry's chest. The "flying lightning" under the crotch happily played a circle, and according to the master's request, he quickly sprinted along a selected line. All the soldiers who crossed this line had to find a way to escape from Guan Yu's knife by themselves.

The blade of the Qinglong Glaive Knife passed by, the armor was like tissue paper, and human life was like fallen leaves. Blood gushes like a spring, and corpses are like straw!

With just one knife, Guan Yu actually killed twenty-seven people, all of whom were trapped in the elite of the camp!

As a result, the thousands of soldiers who were stunned by the tragic battle between the two elite soldiers just now were dumbfounded and swaying for Guan Yu's earth-shattering sword......

"Is this still human?"

As soon as this remark came out. There was an immediate chord. And when the soldiers on both sides found themselves in the same opinion as the enemy, a sense of embarrassment arose. But no matter what. The emergence of this kind of resonance has greatly weakened the fighting spirit of the opposing sides once again.

Seeing Guan Yu's exaggerated sword, Gao Shun, who was standing on the command car, couldn't help frowning. Although this knife was amazing, he was not incomprehensible to it. Guan Yu used the power of the war horse, and the heaviness of the Qinglong Knife. He also skillfully followed the edge of the line of the two armies and only used one side to face the enemy, so that he could fully give full play to the advantages of his martial arts, cut through with one sword, and achieved such an amazing result.

Even if you don't see Guan Yu after putting away the knife. The spasm of the palm when he ran back to the formation, Gao Shun could also understand that in the short term, Guan Yu would never be able to use such a knife technique for the second time. If he could use such a sword again, he would not be able to surpass Wen Hou Lü Bu in force—of course, this is unlikely.

However, even so, Gao Shun also admired Guan Yu's martial arts a little. According to Gao Shun's judgment, except for Wen Hou Lu Bu, there is no second person in Xuzhou who can compete with Guan Yu in personal force.

Even Zhang Liao, a fierce general known as "Little Wenhou", can't do it.

With just one sword, Guan Yu reversed the low morale caused by the collapse of the school knife hand just now. From this point of view, Gao Shun also felt that the enemy did have the strength to resist his own side. However, he was an orthodox soldier and naturally wanted to pursue victory in battle. Therefore, Gao Shun admired it, but he had no intention of withdrawing his troops. He beat the drums of war again, commanding the remnants of the trapped camp to advance to the front.

The trapping camp is worthy of being one of the strongest soldiers in the world. Even if the momentum was temporarily taken away, the speed of its recovery was still fast enough to surprise Guan Yu. As soon as Gao Shun's drum sounded, the trapped camp formed a formation in silence, and strode down in the direction of the school knife hand's retreat

This move of trapping the camp made Guan Yu extremely angry in his heart.

-- Defeated, defeated after all......

Although the "10,000 enemies" claim to be the best enemy of 10,000 people, it is not true after all. Under the dominance of the general trend of the battle array, no matter how you claim to be "ten thousand enemies", you will still die if you do not retreat.

On July 20, the sixth year of stability [198], Guan Yu fought against Gao Shun outside Juxian and suffered a small defeat.

Although Guan Yu was defeated, he did not suffer much damage, a total of 400 people. Gao Shun's casualties also reached about 300. Guan Yu was defeated, but he held the camp, so this defeat did not have much impact on the next battle.

This confrontation between the two armies can only be regarded as an appetizer. Two days later, Yu Ban's main force arrived. Three days later, Lu Bu also personally led his troops to the outside of Juxian County. With the main armies of both sides in place, a big battle seems to be just around the corner.

Lu Bu dispatched a large army this time, but due to the urgency of time, it was too late to fully mobilize, and the main force of the army was his directly administered corps. As for his subordinates, such as Cao Bao, Chen Deng, Mi Zhu, Bao Xin and others, they each dispatched only two or three thousand people to join Lu Bu's main army.

Of course, if they are given a period of mobilization, these county officials can at least raise more than 20,000 reinforcements. Others don't say, Chen Deng, who has been in Guangling Tuntian for several years. As long as the military and civilians in Tuntian are gathered, there are tens of thousands of troops.

Moreover, when he learned that Zang Ba had captured Xiao Jian in Ju County, Lu Bu had already sent envoys to Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Sun Jian, Liu Chong, and even Liu Bei, who had occupied Jiangdong for a short time, to inform him, and ask for help by the way. Even if Lu Bu believed that Xuzhou would be able to withstand this attack from the north on his own. Wouldn't it be better if there was external help?

With the idea of delaying time, Lu Bu then kept delaying the battle. If Yu Ban sent people out to provoke, Lu Bu sent his subordinates to deal with Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian and others. Once when the interest came, Lu Bu even went directly to the battle and beheaded the guy known as one of the "Eight Eagles of Bingzhou" in two moves, which greatly damaged the morale of the forbidden army.

However, if Yu Ban can become the most valued general under Zhang Qiang, how can he be a weakling?

Just when Lu Bu made up his mind to delay the war. The news from the rear made his strategy bankrupt all at once.

"What? Kaiyang was attacked? Grain trucks burned? ”

Hearing the news brought by the messenger, Lu Bu stood up in the big tent, walked to the messenger in two steps, and looked at the soldier condescendingly. Lu Bu was nine feet tall, and that soldier was just an ordinary person, and he fell to one knee, being glared at by Lu Bu so murderously. The soldier had not yet collapsed to the ground, and he was already very courageous.

Again, an affirmative answer was received from the soldiers. The anger on Lu Bu's face became more and more obvious. Fortunately, he later confirmed from the soldiers that although Kaiyang was attacked, it was not captured by the enemy. The burned grain cart was at a location twenty miles away from Kaiyang. This made Lu Bu breathe a sigh of relief, but it did not reduce Lu Bu's anger much. After a while, though. Lu Bu finally controlled his temper and turned his head to ask the general sitting on the other side.

"Yuncheng, in your opinion, what should be the moment?"

Yuncheng is Bao Yuncheng. In fact, it was Bao Xin, after hearing Lu Bu's consultation, he sat upright for a moment and replied:

"The army has no more food and grass than five days. The situation is pressing, if you don't fight a decisive battle with the enemy, you have to retreat to the rear and wait for the grain and grass to come up. In fact, with Uncle Fang's bravery, even if he fights a decisive battle with the Northern Thief, the chances of winning are in the majority. ”

"So, Yuncheng wants me to fight the Northern Thief?"

Lu Bu had some hesitation in his eyes, and then asked Bao Xin.

Since Bao Xin was driven away from Yanzhou by Cao Cao, in a hurry, he defected to Lu Bu, but he was quite valued by Lu Bu. As a guest general, he relied on Lu Bu for most of his military supplies. If it weren't for the fact that knowledge was valued by Lu Bu, I was afraid that the troops under his command would not even have half of the current strength.

To say that Xuzhou's resourceful people are actually not few. Chen Deng Chen Yuanlong is known as the "man of the lake and the sea", and his wisdom is the best in the whole state. Mi Zhu is good at observing people, and he is also a wise man who moves one side. There is also Sun Gan, who defected to Lu Bu not long ago, who has superb tongue and argument skills, and is also a man of great resourcefulness.

But Lu Bu didn't trust the above people. As a martial artist, Lu Bu could faintly sense the rejection of him by those scholars in the state. Only fellow martial artists like Cao Bao and Bao Xin can trust Lu Bu, who is not broad-minded.

In fact, Bao Xin and Cao Bao are not authentic martial artists, the two have only been in the military position for a long time, and they are full of military atmosphere. However, in the current territory of Xuzhou, among the local powerful factions, that is, Cao Bao and Bao Xin are the most trusted by Lu Bu.

"If Uncle Fang wants to fight the enemy, it is not impossible. Now what our army is facing is only the Northern Thief [Zhang Crazy Army]. While the main force of the Northern Thieves has not been concentrated, it is also a good thing to break one of them first. However, in the opinion of faith, there is no need to fight for the short and long of the moment at this moment. The Taishan thieves are coiled on the flank, threatening the rear of our army, and with this hidden danger, the decisive battle is not a good time. ”

The Taishan thief refers to Zang Ba, Chu Feiyan and others who are entrenched in the area of Taishan County. The east side of Kaiyang City is connected to the Taishan area, and Chu Feiyan, who is still entrenched in the area of Taishan, is the culprit of this attack on the Xuzhou grain transportation team.

Bao Xin quietly gave his opinion. When Lu Bu heard this, his brows furrowed:

"That's what it means to retreat?"

"Not only must we withdraw, but it is better to withdraw to Jiqiu in one go."

"What?"

Lu Bu was taken aback. (To be continued......)

PS: The child has a fever and tosses for half a night, which is really troublesome.